Soda lime glass is basically colorless. Metals and oxides can be added to glass to change its color during the glass blowing, molding or machine production process. The following additives make the distinctive colors: •Red glass: ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has started construction of a solar project in Kitakyushu-shi, Japan. Generation capacity will be 1.4MWDC, and operation will start in ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic modules First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA and JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp (Japan's leading distributor of oil and other energy solutions) have signed an agreement for the distribution of First ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA says that it will invest about $100m in Japan to develop solar power plants. The firm aims to partner with Japanese companies to develop, ...
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Solexant Corp of San Jose, CA, USA has announced a new corporate identity as Siva Power, the culmination of a two-year transition to a platform that aims to create a profitable path to sub-$0.40 per watt solar power, along with what it ...
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Quackity quack, the quacks are back, and this time they're targeting fish oil supplements, claiming that taking fish oils raises your risk of prostate cancer. Hogwash. This is just another case of pure fearmongering quackery by the ...
Sofradir of Chatenay-Malabry, near Paris, France, which makes infrared (IR) detectors based on mercury cadmium telluride (MCT/HgCdTe), indium antimonide (InSb), quantum-well infrared photodetector (QWIP) and indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) ...
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For third-quarter 2013, First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which makes thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has reported ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has agreed to sell the 250MWAC Silver State South Solar Project to a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC (a subsidiary of NextEra Energy ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has completed and handed over a 13MWDC photovoltaic (PV) power plant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The facility, ...
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Quantum dots are nano-sized semiconductor particles whose emission color can be tuned by simply changing their dimensions. They feature near-unity emission quantum yields and narrow emission bands, which result in excellent color purity. ...
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Thin-film processing equipment maker AVACO Co Ltd of Daegu, South Korea, which specializes in sputtering (PVD) vacuum deposition equipment (in-line, cluster, and roll to roll), atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, back-end-of-line ...
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With the chemical symbol Ni, nickel is a silvery white and hard metal which is ductile and malleable and belongs to the transition group of metals. It is a versatile element and will alloy with most metals. The alloys of nickel has been ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), has entered into an agreement to construct a 250MWAC solar power plant in Riverside County, CA, for a subsidiary of ...
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Federal-Mogul Corp. says its Wagner Brake brand is reaching out to automotive parts distributors and service providers to increase awareness of the new packaging LeafMark designation covering “low copper” compliant brake pads. ...
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